-Not Again-
"Saira, time for class" Liz said the next morning
"Ugh. How many days to Christmas creak?"
"Too many. C'mon"
Saira drug herself out of bed and changed into her school roves. She grabbed her books and wand and then followed Liz downstairs. Everyone was gathered around the bulletin board.
"What's going on?" Liz asked
"Umbridge issued another decree"
"Let's get out of here," Liz said
They walked out of the portrait and headed toward History of Magic with Professor Binns.
"Saira!"
"Hey Bri" Saira said
"Did you hear about the decree?" Bri spoke rapidly in French causing a confused look on Liz's face but Saira continued in understanding
"Yeah we hear"
"Elvish please if we're going to speak foreign" Liz said frantically.
They chatted all the way to class in their native tongue making heads turn as they passed. Bri had potions so she went the other way and Liz and Saira took their seats. Dmitri kissed Aranel goodbye before coming in. His hair was now black with blue tips which Saira and Liz both agreed looked quite good.
He walked in smugly. He saw Saira and climbed up to her desk since it was in a theater set up. He sat on the desk crinkling the pages in her book.
"Hey beautiful. You .me.broom closet. Five minutes." He winked
"Three words. In.your.dreams" saira said folding down her fingers. Dmitri jumped into her lap.
"C'mon Saira, we've done it before" he said coyly
"Don't lie, Dmitri. Now get off"
Dmitri didn't budge. He did fake tears. "I know. You don't love me anymore. I see"
"Oh you big baby" Saira pulled his face close and kissed him on the cheek. "Okay. That's all you get"
"Why?" he protested still sitting on Saira's lap
"Because you have a girlfriend who is one of my best friends"
"I'd drop her in a heartbeat for you" he joked
"No" Professor Binns floated in and Saira pushed Dmitri off. He clamored in the seat beside her. Harry, Ron and Hermione came in just as the bell rang.
Binns droned on in his boring voice. About twenty minutes into the class, Harry pulled Hedwig inside from being perched outside. She was injured so Harry left. Everyone exchanged worried glances but stayed in class. Dmitri fell over into Saira's lap asleep. For amusement, Saira played with the color of Dmitri's hair.
By the end of class, his hair was an assortment of colors. He didn't even know until he saw a couple of first years giving him odd looks. He looked in the mirror and the others laughed at the expression on his face.
"Saira!"
She ran down the hall and Dmitri chased her. He caught up and picked her up.
"You oaf put me down," she said laughing
"Change it back"
Just then Aranel walked up with Liz.
"Dmitri, I know you like to be unique but I think you went a little overboard," Aranel said as they all walked into the Great Hall for lunch with Saira suspended casually in his arms.
"It was Saira not me" he said. Saira changed it back as they sat down. Dmitri held Saira in his lap while he gave Aranel a kiss.
"Get a room" Liz said
"Or at least let me get off" Saira said
Saira and the others were joined by Harry, Ron and Hermione who were talking quietly about a letter Harry got from Sirius. They continued and told the Elves everything on the way to Potions until Neville walked up.
However then Draco walked up making wisecracks about how Umbridge let them rejoin their quidditch team. But when he mentioned something about a place called 'St. Mungo's' Neville tried to dive at Draco. If Snape hadn't shown up Saira reckoned Harry and Ron wouldn't have been able to hold Neville back.
Umbridge was in class to evaluate Snape's class but Saira didn't care. She was furious at Draco even though he'd said he would Saira still felt betrayed. After class, she broke away from her group and followed Draco despite the many objections form her friends.
When she caught up to him, she turned him around and slapped him. Pansy Parkinson shrieked and started to go after Saira.
"You even try it and I'll knock you flat on your back" saira threatened "And if your body guards try anything I'll drop down them even faster."
Rubbing his face and trying not to look mad, Draco told everyone to back off. Pansy still looked ready to pounce but heeded Saira's warning.
"May I ask what that was for?" Draco finally asked
"Do you thrive on the pain of others?"
"Excuse me"
"Was there any truth to what you said to me?" Saira changed her question
"Yes"
"If that were so I would have thought you'd have more respect"
"He doesn't have to, to a stupid Gryffindor Elf" Pansy said
"Raun en'naur!" Saira yelled and a wall of fire burst in between her and Pansy. "Now where were we?" she said coldly
"I don't understand. I told you nothing would change"
"I realize that but you must have said something a little too bad if Neville of all people went after you. Am I getting you to feel guilty yet?"
Saira waved her hand and made the firewall disappeared because the heat was getting to her. Pansy looked scared out of her mind
"Yes, actually" Draco said
Saira sighed. She knew nothing would change. Very calmly she said
"Will you at least do me a favor?"
Pansy opened her mouth but Saira held up her hand with a ball of fire floating there. She shut up real quick.
"Sure" Draco answered
"If you're going to be rude to my friends can you warn m so I don't have to hear it. I'd like to keep the image I have of you"
"I will, well I have to get to class and I be you do too"
"Its just Divination. I'm gonna skiv off"
"Tsk tsk Saira"
"I'll get a lecture later. Namaarie"
Saira went off in the opposite direction and Liz was waiting around the corner smiling.
"Oh that will be embedded in my mind forever. I bet Pansy will think twice before she takes you on" Liz said.
"Don't piss off an Elf should be a known fact to everyone. Shouldn't you be in class?"
"I'll ask you the same question. We'll skip together. Aranel wouldn't let Dmitri. He's barely passing." Liz said, "So, what he was saying in Charms, was that true?"
"No. We kissed a few times but that's it. I've known him since I was born so people get the wrong idea about how we act around each other."
"You mean as if you were going out with him?"
"Yeah."
"Let's head to the courtyard so we don't get caught"
Saira wasn't sure how they got to the courtyard without running into Filch or Umbridge but they did.
"You think Professor Trelawney is going to miss you?" Liz asked summoning two hammocks for them
"Like I care but I'm thinking not. She probably didn't want to e shown up by a student with Umbridge there"
"Uh oh" Liz said abruptly
"What?"
"Legolas knows we're in here and he's coming this way"
"Let's get out of here"
Liz got up and ran to the doorway but Saira's foot got caught in the hammock. Liz hesitated
"Go. He wont get as mad at me"
But Legolas opened the door and stepped in. Saira tried to act causal as one of her legs up lifted up still stuck in the hammock. Liz stood innocently
"Hello girls"
"Hi" they said in unison
"I hope you have a good reason as to why you're not in class"
"Um how about Trelawney is an old fraud and her room makes me nauseous?" Saira said hopefully
"Nice try"
"Fine. We'll go to class
"When did I say that?" he said
"Huh?"
"Trelawney is on probation. I doubt she'll be teaching much today"
"Wait. I thought you were mad." Liz said "My powers-"
"-Can be blacked" he finished
"Excuse me" Liz argued looking at him with a piercing gaze
"Your gift, though very powerful can be blocked and manipulated with a strong mind."
"Unfair"
"Okay well just make sure you two get to your next class on time. And Saira, later tonight come by. I have something important to talk with you about."
"Yeah I would but I'm a little stuck at the moment."
"Elizabeth, you go on, and I'll help Saira."
Liz left and Legolas went over and sat next to Saira who couldn't seem to figure out how she got her foot caught. She blew hair out of her face and gave up.
"I must say that was quite graceful"
"Shut up" she said smiling. "Will you at least me out?"
"Relax your foot," he instructed but then just used magic to get her out.
"And the point of that was?"
"No point. Well why don't we stay and talk for a bit?"
"We've both been busy and relationships such as ours are hard to keep up."
"Is it a burden for you?"
"I love you Legolas but it seems others love me too and I'm finding hard to keep this a secret"
"Who?"
"A friend from last year?"
"I'm sorry such things are upon you"
"You know I know of something that could make me feel better"
But Legolas had already leaned in by the time she looked at him again. She didn't want to leave for her class but Legolas forced her to. She walked in to find Dmitri lying across everyone's chair and everyone trying to get him up.
"I'm quite comfortable," he argued
"Saira" they all pleaded
"Dmitri, you have five seconds before I show everyone my little trick"
Immediately he got up just as Umbridge came in. Dmitri lie down in Saira's lap and as Umbridge said the assignment everyone lip-synced.
Later than night they all headed to dinner together. The Elves absentmindedly spoke in Elvish but switched when the eyebrows rose on their friend's faces. Bri went to sit with some of her new Ravenclaw friends but Aranel liked sitting with Dmitri. Even Voron had come to sit with Liz.
"Maybe you two should ask to switch to Gryffindor since you spend all your time with us" Dmitri said
"No, I don't think so. Gryffindor is great but I like Ravenclaw's common room better"
"Saira you awake?"
Saira hadn't been eating. Ever since Harry had given Saira the picture, she'd look at it whenever she got a change. "Huh? Oh yeah"
Everyone continued eating but saira was getting a headache so she didn't talk. Her headache was familiar and she knew what was coming but hoped dinner would be over before it came. Liz seemed ready to jump at a moment's notice
The pain continued to escalate and saira knew what it meant the second it got unbearable. She fell backward and off the bench. She hit the ground with a sickening thud. She grabbed her head as sharp pains seared though her head as if someone were stabbing her with a hot poker.
Liz had jumped up and taken Saira's hand, which didn't help as much as she hoped. Saira started screaming and gasps of fear erupted throughout the hall. Legolas was nowhere to be seen but Dumbledore ordered everyone to leave and ran to Saira.
Her vision finally came. The pain lessened but was still there. Ganondorf was in his throne room looking angrier than ever.
'She was supposed to make is back' he snarled at Evangeline who was sitting at his table with her foot propped up eating the food
'Still no faith?" she said coolly
'I might if you'd tell me this great plan of yours. It might give me an incentive to let you continue'
'Oh I'm scared. I guarantee by the end of this year our troubles will be over'
'How?'
'The girl will be useless. Legolas will probably be dead and Link will be brought in the open and dead'
Saira felt the pain return and everything went black.
Saira did not awake from her stupor for a while. Liz visited her everyday many times a day. Dmitri hated seeing Saira lying in a hospital wing and avoided that hall. Saira's dreams were empty until two weeks had passed and her fears began to haunt her. It scared her so much that she woke up shaking uncontrollably. Then she realized it was mainly because her covers had been kicked off. She was leaning on her side so when someone pulled them back on her she moved quickly and was scared.
"Shh. It's only me" Legolas said when she slipped over and pushed herself into the bed. Saira was still scared about her dreams and put her arms around him. He did the same.
"How long have I been out?" she asked
"Two weeks or so. I was wondering why you never showed up and Liz told me"
"I'm sorry"
"It's not your fault"
Saira remembered her vision and started to cry
"What's wrong?"
"My vision. She said you'd probably be dead by the end of this year and that thought hurts me"
"Listen to me" he pushed her back and looked her straight in the eyes.
"If I can help it, nobody is going to die."
"I wish I could believe that but for the feeling in my heart" Saira said "Stay here please"
"Okay"
"Saira, time for class" Liz said the next morning
"Ugh. How many days to Christmas creak?"
"Too many. C'mon"
Saira drug herself out of bed and changed into her school roves. She grabbed her books and wand and then followed Liz downstairs. Everyone was gathered around the bulletin board.
"What's going on?" Liz asked
"Umbridge issued another decree"
"Let's get out of here," Liz said
They walked out of the portrait and headed toward History of Magic with Professor Binns.
"Saira!"
"Hey Bri" Saira said
"Did you hear about the decree?" Bri spoke rapidly in French causing a confused look on Liz's face but Saira continued in understanding
"Yeah we hear"
"Elvish please if we're going to speak foreign" Liz said frantically.
They chatted all the way to class in their native tongue making heads turn as they passed. Bri had potions so she went the other way and Liz and Saira took their seats. Dmitri kissed Aranel goodbye before coming in. His hair was now black with blue tips which Saira and Liz both agreed looked quite good.
He walked in smugly. He saw Saira and climbed up to her desk since it was in a theater set up. He sat on the desk crinkling the pages in her book.
"Hey beautiful. You .me.broom closet. Five minutes." He winked
"Three words. In.your.dreams" saira said folding down her fingers. Dmitri jumped into her lap.
"C'mon Saira, we've done it before" he said coyly
"Don't lie, Dmitri. Now get off"
Dmitri didn't budge. He did fake tears. "I know. You don't love me anymore. I see"
"Oh you big baby" Saira pulled his face close and kissed him on the cheek. "Okay. That's all you get"
"Why?" he protested still sitting on Saira's lap
"Because you have a girlfriend who is one of my best friends"
"I'd drop her in a heartbeat for you" he joked
"No" Professor Binns floated in and Saira pushed Dmitri off. He clamored in the seat beside her. Harry, Ron and Hermione came in just as the bell rang.
Binns droned on in his boring voice. About twenty minutes into the class, Harry pulled Hedwig inside from being perched outside. She was injured so Harry left. Everyone exchanged worried glances but stayed in class. Dmitri fell over into Saira's lap asleep. For amusement, Saira played with the color of Dmitri's hair.
By the end of class, his hair was an assortment of colors. He didn't even know until he saw a couple of first years giving him odd looks. He looked in the mirror and the others laughed at the expression on his face.
"Saira!"
She ran down the hall and Dmitri chased her. He caught up and picked her up.
"You oaf put me down," she said laughing
"Change it back"
Just then Aranel walked up with Liz.
"Dmitri, I know you like to be unique but I think you went a little overboard," Aranel said as they all walked into the Great Hall for lunch with Saira suspended casually in his arms.
"It was Saira not me" he said. Saira changed it back as they sat down. Dmitri held Saira in his lap while he gave Aranel a kiss.
"Get a room" Liz said
"Or at least let me get off" Saira said
Saira and the others were joined by Harry, Ron and Hermione who were talking quietly about a letter Harry got from Sirius. They continued and told the Elves everything on the way to Potions until Neville walked up.
However then Draco walked up making wisecracks about how Umbridge let them rejoin their quidditch team. But when he mentioned something about a place called 'St. Mungo's' Neville tried to dive at Draco. If Snape hadn't shown up Saira reckoned Harry and Ron wouldn't have been able to hold Neville back.
Umbridge was in class to evaluate Snape's class but Saira didn't care. She was furious at Draco even though he'd said he would Saira still felt betrayed. After class, she broke away from her group and followed Draco despite the many objections form her friends.
When she caught up to him, she turned him around and slapped him. Pansy Parkinson shrieked and started to go after Saira.
"You even try it and I'll knock you flat on your back" saira threatened "And if your body guards try anything I'll drop down them even faster."
Rubbing his face and trying not to look mad, Draco told everyone to back off. Pansy still looked ready to pounce but heeded Saira's warning.
"May I ask what that was for?" Draco finally asked
"Do you thrive on the pain of others?"
"Excuse me"
"Was there any truth to what you said to me?" Saira changed her question
"Yes"
"If that were so I would have thought you'd have more respect"
"He doesn't have to, to a stupid Gryffindor Elf" Pansy said
"Raun en'naur!" Saira yelled and a wall of fire burst in between her and Pansy. "Now where were we?" she said coldly
"I don't understand. I told you nothing would change"
"I realize that but you must have said something a little too bad if Neville of all people went after you. Am I getting you to feel guilty yet?"
Saira waved her hand and made the firewall disappeared because the heat was getting to her. Pansy looked scared out of her mind
"Yes, actually" Draco said
Saira sighed. She knew nothing would change. Very calmly she said
"Will you at least do me a favor?"
Pansy opened her mouth but Saira held up her hand with a ball of fire floating there. She shut up real quick.
"Sure" Draco answered
"If you're going to be rude to my friends can you warn m so I don't have to hear it. I'd like to keep the image I have of you"
"I will, well I have to get to class and I be you do too"
"Its just Divination. I'm gonna skiv off"
"Tsk tsk Saira"
"I'll get a lecture later. Namaarie"
Saira went off in the opposite direction and Liz was waiting around the corner smiling.
"Oh that will be embedded in my mind forever. I bet Pansy will think twice before she takes you on" Liz said.
"Don't piss off an Elf should be a known fact to everyone. Shouldn't you be in class?"
"I'll ask you the same question. We'll skip together. Aranel wouldn't let Dmitri. He's barely passing." Liz said, "So, what he was saying in Charms, was that true?"
"No. We kissed a few times but that's it. I've known him since I was born so people get the wrong idea about how we act around each other."
"You mean as if you were going out with him?"
"Yeah."
"Let's head to the courtyard so we don't get caught"
Saira wasn't sure how they got to the courtyard without running into Filch or Umbridge but they did.
"You think Professor Trelawney is going to miss you?" Liz asked summoning two hammocks for them
"Like I care but I'm thinking not. She probably didn't want to e shown up by a student with Umbridge there"
"Uh oh" Liz said abruptly
"What?"
"Legolas knows we're in here and he's coming this way"
"Let's get out of here"
Liz got up and ran to the doorway but Saira's foot got caught in the hammock. Liz hesitated
"Go. He wont get as mad at me"
But Legolas opened the door and stepped in. Saira tried to act causal as one of her legs up lifted up still stuck in the hammock. Liz stood innocently
"Hello girls"
"Hi" they said in unison
"I hope you have a good reason as to why you're not in class"
"Um how about Trelawney is an old fraud and her room makes me nauseous?" Saira said hopefully
"Nice try"
"Fine. We'll go to class
"When did I say that?" he said
"Huh?"
"Trelawney is on probation. I doubt she'll be teaching much today"
"Wait. I thought you were mad." Liz said "My powers-"
"-Can be blacked" he finished
"Excuse me" Liz argued looking at him with a piercing gaze
"Your gift, though very powerful can be blocked and manipulated with a strong mind."
"Unfair"
"Okay well just make sure you two get to your next class on time. And Saira, later tonight come by. I have something important to talk with you about."
"Yeah I would but I'm a little stuck at the moment."
"Elizabeth, you go on, and I'll help Saira."
Liz left and Legolas went over and sat next to Saira who couldn't seem to figure out how she got her foot caught. She blew hair out of her face and gave up.
"I must say that was quite graceful"
"Shut up" she said smiling. "Will you at least me out?"
"Relax your foot," he instructed but then just used magic to get her out.
"And the point of that was?"
"No point. Well why don't we stay and talk for a bit?"
"We've both been busy and relationships such as ours are hard to keep up."
"Is it a burden for you?"
"I love you Legolas but it seems others love me too and I'm finding hard to keep this a secret"
"Who?"
"A friend from last year?"
"I'm sorry such things are upon you"
"You know I know of something that could make me feel better"
But Legolas had already leaned in by the time she looked at him again. She didn't want to leave for her class but Legolas forced her to. She walked in to find Dmitri lying across everyone's chair and everyone trying to get him up.
"I'm quite comfortable," he argued
"Saira" they all pleaded
"Dmitri, you have five seconds before I show everyone my little trick"
Immediately he got up just as Umbridge came in. Dmitri lie down in Saira's lap and as Umbridge said the assignment everyone lip-synced.
Later than night they all headed to dinner together. The Elves absentmindedly spoke in Elvish but switched when the eyebrows rose on their friend's faces. Bri went to sit with some of her new Ravenclaw friends but Aranel liked sitting with Dmitri. Even Voron had come to sit with Liz.
"Maybe you two should ask to switch to Gryffindor since you spend all your time with us" Dmitri said
"No, I don't think so. Gryffindor is great but I like Ravenclaw's common room better"
"Saira you awake?"
Saira hadn't been eating. Ever since Harry had given Saira the picture, she'd look at it whenever she got a change. "Huh? Oh yeah"
Everyone continued eating but saira was getting a headache so she didn't talk. Her headache was familiar and she knew what was coming but hoped dinner would be over before it came. Liz seemed ready to jump at a moment's notice
The pain continued to escalate and saira knew what it meant the second it got unbearable. She fell backward and off the bench. She hit the ground with a sickening thud. She grabbed her head as sharp pains seared though her head as if someone were stabbing her with a hot poker.
Liz had jumped up and taken Saira's hand, which didn't help as much as she hoped. Saira started screaming and gasps of fear erupted throughout the hall. Legolas was nowhere to be seen but Dumbledore ordered everyone to leave and ran to Saira.
Her vision finally came. The pain lessened but was still there. Ganondorf was in his throne room looking angrier than ever.
'She was supposed to make is back' he snarled at Evangeline who was sitting at his table with her foot propped up eating the food
'Still no faith?" she said coolly
'I might if you'd tell me this great plan of yours. It might give me an incentive to let you continue'
'Oh I'm scared. I guarantee by the end of this year our troubles will be over'
'How?'
'The girl will be useless. Legolas will probably be dead and Link will be brought in the open and dead'
Saira felt the pain return and everything went black.
Saira did not awake from her stupor for a while. Liz visited her everyday many times a day. Dmitri hated seeing Saira lying in a hospital wing and avoided that hall. Saira's dreams were empty until two weeks had passed and her fears began to haunt her. It scared her so much that she woke up shaking uncontrollably. Then she realized it was mainly because her covers had been kicked off. She was leaning on her side so when someone pulled them back on her she moved quickly and was scared.
"Shh. It's only me" Legolas said when she slipped over and pushed herself into the bed. Saira was still scared about her dreams and put her arms around him. He did the same.
"How long have I been out?" she asked
"Two weeks or so. I was wondering why you never showed up and Liz told me"
"I'm sorry"
"It's not your fault"
Saira remembered her vision and started to cry
"What's wrong?"
"My vision. She said you'd probably be dead by the end of this year and that thought hurts me"
"Listen to me" he pushed her back and looked her straight in the eyes.
"If I can help it, nobody is going to die."
"I wish I could believe that but for the feeling in my heart" Saira said "Stay here please"
"Okay"